Luke 11:34.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - That is, have provision made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength and spend your d...
True Righteousness in Relation to Wealth. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels...
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21. Where your treasure shall be By this statement Christ proves that they are unhappy men who have their treasures laid up on the earth: be...
DISCOURSE: 1321 LAYING UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN Matthew 6:19-21 . Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Where your treasure is - If God be the treasure of our souls, our hearts, i.e. our affecti...
Lay not up, &c.— By taking a general review of what we have been hitherto taught in this divine sermon, we shall be led more distinctly to the...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. For where your treasure is, [that which ye value most], there will your heart be a...
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expec...
The earthly treasure and the heavenly treasure. When do we lay up 'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms ( Matthew 6:2 ), or pray ( Matthew 6:...
For where your treasure is, etc.] see Luke 12:34 . The heavenly treasure is the approval of our heavenly Father, which is represented as wealth st...
Where your treasure is. — The words imply the truth, afterwards more definitely asserted, that it is impossible to “serve God and mammon” ( Matthew...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to...
What to Seek and Whom to Serve Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the in...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great...
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot...
CHOOSING THE BEST ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.’ Matthew 6:21 This is the reason which our Lord gives for the p...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This seems to be a proverbial expression, and contains in it another reason, dissuading...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Ver. 21. For where your treasure is, &c. ] i.e. Where your chief happiness is, t...
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth Our Lord here makes a transition from religious to common actions, and warns us of another snare, th...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we ex...
The Sermon on the Mount. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where...
Ver. 19-21. A treasure (according to the notation of the word) signifieth something laid up for tomorrow, for future time; more largely it signifie...
1). The Choice As To Which Treasure Will Be Sought And Lived For. Analysis of Matthew 6:19-21 . a A “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on...
They Must Lay Up Their Treasure In Heaven As They Cannot Serve God and Mammon (6:19-24). Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' att...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:19-20 . Lay not up … lay up . An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negat...
Matthew 6:19-21 When Christ said these words, were there young people standing by? If so, they must have sounded very strangely in their ears. For...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. T...
Matthew 6:5 . And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners o...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had...
EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , n...
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The repetition of the same words serves for emphasis. Treasures you may and shall have, o...
2 Corinthians 4:18 ; Acts 8:21 ; Colossians 3:1-3 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; Isaiah 33:6 ; Jeremiah 22:17 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Luke 12:34 ; Matthew 12:34...
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.